Riverdale will go

Warning: This text accommodates spoilers for Riverdale season two.
Now that the homicide thriller on the coronary heart of Riverdale’s second season is all wrapped up, ending with a divisive reveal within the midseason finale, the shock hit collection will take a flip down Easy Road.
Talking with Leisure Weekly, Riverdale creator and showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa that the remaining episodes of season two will head again to the present’s Archie comics roots, shying away from serial killers terrorizing the city and complicated whodunits that go away everybody feeling dizzy.
“The second half of season two gets back to a little bit of Riverdale basics, which is focused on stories at the school, kind of getting back in deep on the relationships and the friendships,” Aguirre-Sacasa defined.
Nonetheless, Riverdale will not ditch all of its trademark darkness within the upcoming episodes. Aguirre-Sacasa assured followers that the narrative will nonetheless be tense, unpredictable, and chock-full of dramatics–it’s going to simply spend considerably much less time past the grounds of Riverdale Excessive College and the properties of its college students.
“There’s still going to be a pulpy noir crime element to the second half, but there will be a resurgence of high school hijinks,” he mentioned, “and getting back to the roots of what Archie’s all about, which is the kids and the school.”
It is a far cry from the occasions that befell within the first half of the brand new season, which actress Lili Reinhart, who performs the once-prim and correct Betty Cooper, beforehand teased as topsy-turvy and emotional sufficient to interrupt viewers’ hearts. Followers watched as Betty and dangerous boy beau Jughead Jones, performed by Cole Sprouse, despatched their relationship by way of the ringer quite a lot of occasions as Jughead grappled together with his new id as a Southside Serpent.
“It’s like Romeo and Juliet,” Reinhart mentioned of the pair’s tumultuous connection. “There’s definitely a divide between the north side and the south side of Riverdale and Betty’s on one side and Jughead’s on the other. You have to choose a side. So it causes a rift between the two, and a big divide, and they start to be pulled away from each other. They can’t see each other as much, and that causes some Bughead problems that might tear some people’s hearts out. But there has to be trouble in paradise. This is Riverdale, and people die.”
It is protected to imagine that the majority Riverdale followers will probably be glad to listen to the collection is simplifying issues transferring ahead, since it’s going to provide them a breather from the continuous theory-crafting and game-playing that occurred within the first half of the season.
Riverdale stars KJ Apa as Archie Andrews, Camila Mendes as Veronica Lodge, Madelaine Petsch as Cheryl Blossom, Ashleigh Murray as Josie McCoy, Marisol Nichols as Hermione Lodge, Mark Conseulos as Hiram Lodge, Madchen Amick as Alice Cooper, Skeet Ulrich as F.P. Jones, Casey Cott as Kevin Keller, and Luke Perry as Fred Andrews, amongst many others. The collection returns to the CW on Wednesday, January 17.